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Frieden-und Freudenland
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Postby Frieden-und Freudenland » Mon May 06, 2019 9:45 pm

Started Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman. Going great so far. It had been idly standing in the bookcase, I'm sorry that I couldn't begin reading it earlier.
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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Tue May 07, 2019 6:14 am

Frieden-und Freudenland wrote:Started Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman. Going great so far. It had been idly standing in the bookcase, I'm sorry that I couldn't begin reading it earlier.

I'm inthe same boat. I buy books, then I don't have time to read them all.
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Cesken
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Postby Cesken » Tue May 07, 2019 6:16 am

America Alone by Mark Steyn
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Hex Enduction Hour
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Postby Hex Enduction Hour » Tue May 07, 2019 6:50 am

Last thing I read was J.G. Ballard's Empire of the Sun. Just bought it today along with 2 others.

Also why would you be posting here while reading lol
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The New California Republic
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Postby The New California Republic » Tue May 07, 2019 7:01 am

Weapons and Tactics of the Soviet Army by David Isby.
Last edited by Sigmund Freud on Sat Sep 23, 1939 2:23 am, edited 999 times in total.
The Irradiated Wasteland of The New California Republic: depicting the expanded NCR, several years after the total victory over Caesar's Legion, and the annexation of New Vegas and its surrounding areas.
White-collared conservatives flashing down the street
Pointing their plastic finger at me
They're hoping soon, my kind will drop and die
But I'm going to wave my freak flag high
Wave on, wave on
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Alexiandra
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Postby Alexiandra » Thu May 09, 2019 9:40 am

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré, again.
'A distinction is made in private life between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does. In historical struggles one must make a still sharper distinction between the phrases and fantasies of the parties and their real organisation and real interests, between their conception of themselves and what they really are.'
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Snow Bird-Worldism Crash
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Postby Snow Bird-Worldism Crash » Fri May 17, 2019 4:37 pm

Southland Tales Book 2: Fingerprints (2006)
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Voxija
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Postby Voxija » Fri May 17, 2019 4:41 pm

Monday the Rabbi Took Off by Harry Kemelman.

It is the fourth book in a mystery series. In this book, the eponymous rabbi goes to Israel. I'm more than a third through the book and no one hasn't been murdered yet. I'm disappointed.
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The Grene Knyght
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Postby The Grene Knyght » Sat May 18, 2019 9:00 am

Just read I am Legend by Richard Matheson, Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman.

Currently re-reading The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury.
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2015: x=-8.75,y=-6.56
2016: x=-8.88,y=-9.54
2017: x=-9.63,y=-9.90
2018: x=-9.88,y=-9.23
2019: x=-10.0,y=-9.90
2020: x=-10.0,y=-10.0
2021: x=-10.0,y=-10.0
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Postby Silver Commonwealth » Sat May 18, 2019 9:19 am

Just finished the 5th, and 6th Warrior Cat books from the first series (''Warriors: The Prophecies Begin''). (''A Dangerous Path'', and ''The Darkest Hour''.)
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Tom being a control freak + pathological distrust of private enterprises = this nation

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Snow Bird-Worldism Crash
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Postby Snow Bird-Worldism Crash » Thu May 23, 2019 7:34 am

southland tales book 3: the mechanicals (2006)
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The Grene Knyght
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Postby The Grene Knyght » Thu May 23, 2019 4:11 pm

Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. Loaned to me by a friend like most of the books I've read recently but I just bought a pile of books today.
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Socialist Women wrote:Part of the reason you're an anarchist is because you ate too much expired food
Claorica wrote:Oh look, an antifa ancom being smartaleck
Old Tyrannia wrote:Bold words from the self-declared Leninist
Currently
Reading
2015: x=-8.75,y=-6.56
2016: x=-8.88,y=-9.54
2017: x=-9.63,y=-9.90
2018: x=-9.88,y=-9.23
2019: x=-10.0,y=-9.90
2020: x=-10.0,y=-10.0
2021: x=-10.0,y=-10.0
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PRO: Socialism, Communism, Internationalism, Revolution, Leninism.
NEUTRAL: Anarchism, Marxism-Leninism.
ANTI: Capitalism, Liberalism, Nationalism, Fascists, Hyper-Sectarian Leftists.
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Postby Satterthwaite » Thu May 23, 2019 4:14 pm

albert camus' the myth of sisyphus and other essays
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A hereditary nigh-absolute left-leaning monarchy with an easily dissolvable parliamentary system. Sometimes "socialist", most of the time just a welfare state. Atheistic, but tolerant of religions (sometimes). Insanely high taxes. Emperor above all. Vive l'Empereur !

Basically a benevolent dictatorship, but don't tell anyone that.
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Harthis
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Postby Harthis » Thu May 23, 2019 4:17 pm

Pet Sematary by Stephen King.
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Washingtonian Republic
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Postby Washingtonian Republic » Thu May 23, 2019 4:24 pm

The Art of War by Sun Tzu
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Platypus Bureaucracy
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Postby Platypus Bureaucracy » Fri May 24, 2019 2:48 pm

Against my better judgement, I am reading a Star Wars novel. They managed to make space battles boring, which I feel like you could blame on the medium but actually it is totally the author's fault for focusing on the wrong things.

Also, I'm listening to Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James, which is really good and really confusing and really gay in a really macho way.
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Postby Frieden-und Freudenland » Sat May 25, 2019 3:59 pm

Jennifer Government by Max Barry :)
When I write, I don't have an accent.

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"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
~Walt Whitman
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Elwher
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Capitalizt

Postby Elwher » Sat May 25, 2019 10:34 pm

Platypus Bureaucracy wrote:Against my better judgement, I am reading a Star Wars novel. They managed to make space battles boring, which I feel like you could blame on the medium but actually it is totally the author's fault for focusing on the wrong things.

Also, I'm listening to Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James, which is really good and really confusing and really gay in a really macho way.


If you are looking for good space battles in novels, I heartily recommend the Honor Harrington series.
CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.
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The Grene Knyght
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Postby The Grene Knyght » Sun May 26, 2019 7:28 am

The Devil to Pay: The Story of Alice & Petronilla by Hugh Fitzgerald Ryan, a local-ish author. Its a historical novel about the first witch burnings in Ireland.
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Socialist Women wrote:Part of the reason you're an anarchist is because you ate too much expired food
Claorica wrote:Oh look, an antifa ancom being smartaleck
Old Tyrannia wrote:Bold words from the self-declared Leninist
Currently
Reading
2015: x=-8.75,y=-6.56
2016: x=-8.88,y=-9.54
2017: x=-9.63,y=-9.90
2018: x=-9.88,y=-9.23
2019: x=-10.0,y=-9.90
2020: x=-10.0,y=-10.0
2021: x=-10.0,y=-10.0
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PRO: Socialism, Communism, Internationalism, Revolution, Leninism.
NEUTRAL: Anarchism, Marxism-Leninism.
ANTI: Capitalism, Liberalism, Nationalism, Fascists, Hyper-Sectarian Leftists.
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Mountain Pygmies
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Ex-Nation

Postby Mountain Pygmies » Sun May 26, 2019 7:37 am

Watchmen by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins.

Yes, I know it's a comic book, now Scram!
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UniversalCommons
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Ex-Nation

Postby UniversalCommons » Sun May 26, 2019 10:19 pm

Detective Comics 80 Years of Batman the Deluxe Edition. Batman is almost as good as Scooby Doo.
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Elwher
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Postby Elwher » Mon May 27, 2019 8:06 am

We seem to be on a comic phase. I just started Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon - 1953
CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.
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The Grene Knyght
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Postby The Grene Knyght » Tue May 28, 2019 6:22 pm

Reading this past winter's edition of The Stinging Fly, a bi-annual publication of new Irish writing.
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Socialist Women wrote:Part of the reason you're an anarchist is because you ate too much expired food
Claorica wrote:Oh look, an antifa ancom being smartaleck
Old Tyrannia wrote:Bold words from the self-declared Leninist
Currently
Reading
2015: x=-8.75,y=-6.56
2016: x=-8.88,y=-9.54
2017: x=-9.63,y=-9.90
2018: x=-9.88,y=-9.23
2019: x=-10.0,y=-9.90
2020: x=-10.0,y=-10.0
2021: x=-10.0,y=-10.0
ＦＵＬＬＹ　ＡＵＴＯＭＡＴＥＤ　ＬＵＸＵＲＹ　ＧＡＹ　ＳＰＡＣＥ　ＣＯＭＭＵＮＩＳＭ
PRO: Socialism, Communism, Internationalism, Revolution, Leninism.
NEUTRAL: Anarchism, Marxism-Leninism.
ANTI: Capitalism, Liberalism, Nationalism, Fascists, Hyper-Sectarian Leftists.
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Pax Nerdvana
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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Wed May 29, 2019 6:15 am

Elwher wrote:
Platypus Bureaucracy wrote:Against my better judgement, I am reading a Star Wars novel. They managed to make space battles boring, which I feel like you could blame on the medium but actually it is totally the author's fault for focusing on the wrong things.

Also, I'm listening to Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James, which is really good and really confusing and really gay in a really macho way.


If you are looking for good space battles in novels, I heartily recommend the Honor Harrington series.

I want to read those. Who wrote them again?
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Suitability (.22LR for squirrels, bigger .22s for long range little things, and big-bore for legal hunting reasons, etc)
Ammunition supply-chain (6.5x55 Swede and .303 British, although available, isn't exactly everywhere)
If it's ugly, uncomfortable, and can't shoot straight, but it accomplishes the above, then it's either a Mosin or a Hi-Point."
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Elwher
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Postby Elwher » Wed May 29, 2019 9:54 am

Pax Nerdvana wrote:
Elwher wrote:
If you are looking for good space battles in novels, I heartily recommend the Honor Harrington series.

I want to read those. Who wrote them again?


David Weber.
CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.
Ambrose Bierce
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